From a16e5d7cabe4c6fa399efa451b2a30a1c6f4327e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Veenstra Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:24:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] README and Thanks now thank for some services provided by others Imported-from: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/dosbox/code-0/dosbox/trunk@1648 --- README | 21 +++++++++++++++++---- THANKS | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 661cd0e0..fedaf568 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ NOTE: ===== While we hope that, one day, DOSBox will run virtually all programs -ever made for the PC...we are not there yet. At present, DOSBox run on a 1.7 -Gigahertz PC is roughly the equivalent of a 25MHz 386 PC. While the 0.60 +ever made for the PC...we are not there yet. At present, DOSBox run on a high- +end machine will roughly be the equivalent of a lowend 486 PC. While the 0.60 release has added support for "protected mode" allowing for more complex and recent programs, but note that this support is early in development and nowhere near as complete as the support for 386 real-mode games (or @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Usage: ====== dosbox [name] [-exit] [-c command] [-fullscreen] [-conf congfigfile] - [-lang languagefile] + [-lang languagefile] [-machine machinetype] [-noconsole] name If "name" is a directory it'll mount that as the C: drive. @@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ dosbox [name] [-exit] [-c command] [-fullscreen] [-conf congfigfile] -noconsole (Windows Only) Start dosbox without showing the console window, output will be redirected to stdout.txt and stderr.txt + + -machine machinetype + Setup dosbox to emulate a specific type of machine. Valid choices are: + auto,hercules,cga,tandy,vga. + Note: If a name/command/configfile/languagefile contains a space in it, put the whole name/command/configfile/languagefile between quotes("example"). @@ -323,7 +328,13 @@ The file is divided into several sections (the names have [] around it). Some sections have options which you can set. # and % indicate comment-lines. The generated configfile contains the current settings. You can alter them and -start DOSBox with the -conf switch to load the file and use these settings. +start DOSBox with the -conf switch to load the file and use these settings. + +DOSBox will if no configfile is specified with the -conf switch look in the +current directory for dosbox.conf. Then it will look for ~/.dosboxrc (linux), +~\dosbox.conf (win32) or "~/Library/Preferences/DOSBox Preferences" (MACOSX). + + ================== The Language File: @@ -351,6 +362,8 @@ Vlad R. of the vdmsound project for excellent sound blaster info. Tatsuyuki Satoh of the Mame Team for making an excellent FM emulator. The Bochs and DOSemu projects which I used for information. Freedos for ideas in making my shell. +Pierre-Yves Gérardy for hosting the old Beta Board. +Colin Snover for hosting our forum. The Beta Testers. ======== diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 9a46546f..7bb1097c 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -8,5 +8,8 @@ Jarek Burczynski for the new OPL emulator. The Bochs and DOSemu projects which I used for information. Freedos for ideas in making my shell. +Pierre-Yves Gérardy for hosting the old Beta Board. +Colin Snover for hosting our forum. + All the people who submitted a bug. The Beta Testers.